Ivan Cervantes of the KTM Enduro Factory Team continued his battle of attrition with arch rival Mika Ahola in the sixth round of the Enduro 1 World championship on Sunday coming in just 0.6 seconds behind his rival at the end of the day.
The race was held in the Spanish coastal town of Sitges, south of Barcelona and presented the riders with hard and very dusty surfaces, including some riding on the beach. "Ivan raced very well today and it was very close between him and Ahola all the way.
There was only a gap of about one second between them after each test," KTM team boss Fabio Farioli said after the race. Tom Sagar the team's second rider in the class experienced some problems and was forced to retire from the race.
Second in standings
Cervantes, the reigning E2 champion again had the pleasure of riding in front of his enthusiastic home crowd at a race well attended by the Spanish motorcycle aficionados. He is second in the championship standings after six rounds with 132 points, training Ahola by just 10 points.
E1 Results Sunday (Round Six)
1. Mika Ahola, Finland, Honda
2. Ivan Cervantes, Spain, KTM
3. Simone Albergoni, Yamaha
4. Eero Remes, Finland, KTM
5. Marc Germain, France, Yamaha
Tom Sagar, Britain, KTM DNF
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Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport erkämpft WEC Punkte in Portugal.
01.04.2008
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Die zweite Runde der diesjährigen Enduro-Weltmeisterschaft (WEC) war für das Team von BMW Motorrad Motorsport alles andere als leicht. Die Werksfahrer Anders Eriksson, Simo Kirssi, Jeff Goblet und Youngster Bert Meyer trafen beim Grand Prix von Portugal auf einen extrem schwierigen Kurs, knifflige Sonderprüfungen und Wetterkapriolen. Nachdem Eriksson bei der WEC-Eröffnungsrunde i ... mehr |
2008 Enduro1 Rider and manufacturer standings after Portugal round
31.03.2008
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Rider Standings 29/03/2008
1. Mika Ahola Honda FIN 92
2. Simone Albergoni Yamaha ITA 89
3. Ivan Cervantes KTM ESP 82
4. Eero Remes KTM FIN 74
5. Cristobal Guerrero Yamaha ESP 54
6. Marc Germain Yamaha FRA 48
7. Maurizio Micheluz Yamaha ITA 44
8. Tom Sagar KTM GBR 29
9. Bartosz Oblucki Husqvarn ... mehr |
2008 Enduro2 Rider and manufacturer standings after Portugal round
31.03.2008
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Rider Standings 29/03/2008
1. Juha Salminen KTM FIN 92
2. Johnny Aubert Yamaha FRA 89
3. Joakim Ljunggren HusaBerg SWE 67
4. Valtteri Salonen HusaBerg FIN 56
5. Rodrig Thain TM FRA 51
6. Alessandro Belometti KTM ITA 46
7. Jari Juha Mattila Honda FIN 41
8. Fabrizio Dini Yamaha ITA 41
9. Nicolas ... mehr |
Yamaha Vale de Cambra World Championship Portugal round
31.03.2008
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Double podium and first 2008 win for Albergoni
UFO Corse Yamaha team rider Simone Albergoni continued his impressive form in the 2008 World Enduro Championship claiming two podium finishes at the second round of the series, the Grand Prix of Portugal staged in Vale de Cambra. Earning a well-deserved victory on Day1 Simone battled hard on Day2 to place 2nd and fini ... mehr |
KTM round four Enduro World Championship in Portugal
31.03.2008
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Cervantes wins Round Four of E1 World Championship
KTM Enduro Factory Team rider Ivan Cervantes put in a great performance in Round Four of the E1 World Championship in Vale de Cambra, Portugal for his first victory of the season.
Cervantes who won the E3 title in 2007 was third in Saturday's race, fought on and off torrential rain and mud to tri ... mehr |
Cervantes takes third in Round Three of E1 World Championship
30.03.2008
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Ivan Cervantes performed well over a fast and difficult track in Vale de Cambra near Porto in Portugal on Saturday to come home in third place in the third round of the E1 World Championship.
With the result, the KTM factor rider from Spain confirmed he is in promising form as the season gets underway. Cervantes also took the minor podium place in round two held ... mehr |
Salminen second in Portuguese E2 Grand Prix
30.03.2008
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KTM factory rider Juha Salminen narrowly missed taking victory in round three of the E2 World Championships in Vale de Cambra Portugal on Saturday but managed to secure second place on the podium.
The Finnish rider's solid result adds valuable points to those he collected for his first and third places in the first two rounds.
Tough fight ... mehr |
Two way KTM battle continues in round three of E3 World Championships
30.03.2008
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Samuli Aro and Marko Tarkkala, KTMs two Finnish factory riders in the E3 big bike category continued their occupancy of the top two podiums places in Round Three of the World Championship on Saturday.
Aro came home over the three times 60km loop of the course at Vale de Cambra just south of the city of Porto in Portugal ahead of teammate Tarkkala to repeat the r ... mehr |
Vielversprechender Start in die WEC Saison 2008 für das Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport.
18.03.2008
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Der siebenfache Enduroweltmeister Anders Eriksson positionierte das Team von BMW Motorrad Motorsport beim Grand Prix von Schweden, dem ersten Lauf zur Enduro-Weltmeisterschaft 2008, mit zwei vierten Plätzen weit vorne in der starken E3-Klasse. Am zweiten Wettbewerbstag lag der Schwede zeitweise sogar auf dem Weg zu einem Podiumsplatz.
Obwohl ein Sturz in der letzten Sond ... mehr |
Jimmy Aubert takes podium double in Sweden
17.03.2008
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Chasing his first World Enduro Championship Frenchman Johnny Aubert got his 2008 WEC season off to a decent start at the Grand Prix of Sweden where the UFO Corse Yamaha rider placed on the podium on both days having claimed a well deserved 2nd spot on day one and a 3rd place finish on day two. Coming into the '08 series havng claimed the outright win at last year's ISDE in Chile, ... mehr |
Albergoni takes podium at frosty Sweden
17.03.2008
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UFO Corse Yamaha team rider Simone Albergoni got his 2008 Enduro 1 World Championship campaign off to an impressive start at the Grand Prix of Sweden, staged in Ostersund, where the Italian was runner-up on day one and then again finished on the podium with third place on day two. The series' only winter enduro is typically an event in which many southern European riders struggle ... mehr |
Cervantes conquers winter conditions for E1 second place in Sweden
16.03.2008
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KTM factory rider Ivan Cervantes of Spain managed to master the snow and ice in central Sweden on day two of the opening Enduro E1 competition coming in second behind Mika Ahola of Finland, a big improvement on his sixth place on Saturday.
Cervantes rides well in winter conditions
Cervantes launched himself into the top result to match a ... mehr |
Salminen tops E2 podium on Day 2 at Oestersund
16.03.2008
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KTM factory rider Juha Salminen sent a strong signal to the opposition in the E2 class on Sunday in Oestersund Sweden when he bettered his third place from Saturday to top the podium.
Salminen finds his rhythm on day two
Salminen, who completely dominated the E1 class last season took third place in the opening race on Saturday said he felt very ... mehr |
Aro and Tarkkala repeat top E3 performances on Day 2 in Sweden
16.03.2008
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KTM Enduro factory riders Samuli Aro and Marko Tarkkala wrapped up an excellent weekend's racing on snow and ice in Oestersund, Sweden on Sunday with a repeat of the result in the E3 class of Saturday's 1-2 result.
After scoring the double in the heart of Sweden this weekend, the two Finnish riders, who again dominated on Sunday, seem set to be each other's bigg ... mehr |
KTM's Ivan Cervantes sixth in first E1 race of season
16.03.2008
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KTM factory rider Ivan Cervantes came home in a creditable sixth place in the season's Enduro 1 world championship opener in Sweden's Oestersund with team mate Tom Sager taking a heavy tumble on the opening day of competition.
Deep snow
Cervantes, from S ... mehr |
Juha Salminen makes E2 podium in season's opener
16.03.2008
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KTM factory rider Juha Salminen finished third in the season's opening E2 Enduro race on Saturday in Sweden's Oestersund, the first of two races held in winter conditions.
Salminen of Finland, who moved from E1 where he was the dominant rider and title winner to take up ... mehr |
Aro and Tarkkala 1-2 in E3 in Sweden in opening GP
16.03.2008
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KTM Enduro factory riders Samuli Aro and Marko Tarkkala started the world championship season in style on Saturday with a 1-2 victory in the first race at Oestersund, the GP held in the heart of Sweden.
The two Finnish riders were at home in the deep snow conditions, the ... mehr |
Fabio Farioli talks about the coming season
12.03.2008
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KTM Enduro Factory Racing Team Manager Fabio Farioli talks to KTM Racing about the coming season.
What are your expectations for the 2008 Enduro season?
We go into this season with very good riders (as usual…) in all three classes. We want to be consistently on the podium and I believe we have a good chance of finishing with some ti ... mehr |
Top riders in all three classes for KTM Enduro Factory Racing
12.03.2008
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The KTM Enduro Factory Racing Team, as always under the experienced guidance of team boss Fabio Farioli, goes into the 2008 racing season pumped with confidence.
With a talented line-up in each class, the team expects to reap podiums and titles this year. To keep riders motivated and to give them new challenges there has been a shakeup of riders in the individua ... mehr |
Swedish stage launches 2008 WEC this weekend
11.03.2008
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With just days to go before the 2008 FIM World Enduro Championship begins with the Grand Prix of Sweden, the UFO Corse Yamaha team are busy putting the final touches to what they are confident will be a successful season with their WR450F and WR250F machinery. The series opener is being staged for the third successive season in Ostersund, deep within the heart of Scandinavia’s fr ... mehr |
Taddy Blasuziak opens Hell's Gate and blasts his way through
10.02.2008
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KTM Factory rider Taddy Blasuziak of Poland put in a superb start-to-finish race on Saturday to take victory in the Hell's Gate Extreme Enduro event in Il Ciocco, in Italy's northern Tuscany.
Taddy, who has been making a huge impression on the international extreme Enduro calendar in the winter months in his first season as a fully-fledged KTM factory rider took ... mehr |
David Knight crowned World Cup Indoor Enduro champion in Genoa
03.02.2008
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KTM hero and factory rider David Knight showed his true fighting spirit on a very fast Indoor Enduro circuit in Genoa late on Saturday to win the title of the 2007-08 Indoor Enduro World Cup champion.
The event in Genoa followed two previous races in Barcelona and Munich.
Cliff hanger
But the Genoa race was a cliff hanger for Knight ... mehr |
National Hare & Hound Series - 1st round Lucerne, CA
29.01.2008
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Defending Hare and Hound Champion, David Pearson, proved why he holds the number one plate when he finished first overall at Round 1 of the AMA Hare and Hound Series in Lucerne, CA.
The course conditions couldn't have been better as the rain from the night before and early morning kept the desert ground saturated allowing the riders to race the event without the ... mehr |
Red Bull KTM riders take first and second place at the first round of the AMA National Enduro Series.
29.01.2008
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National Enduro Series - 1st round Sumter, SC
The riders and fans could not have asked for a more beautiful day to start off the first round of the AMA National Enduro Series. The weather was sunny with temperatures in the mid 50's as the riders geared up to tackle the course.
Defending National Enduro Champion Mike Lafferty took the ear ... mehr |
Knighter invincible at the 4th "The Tough One"
27.01.2008
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KTM's David Knight took his revenge on fellow KTM factory rider Taddy Blazusiak at the weekend taking a victorious fourth edition of the extreme Enduro Sprint Scramble rightly named "The Tough One".
Blazusiak, who stole victory from the Manxman at the legendary Last Man Standing in the USA in the closing stages of 2007 was second at this challenging event held i ... mehr |
Taddy Blazusiak blasts away opposition at Rodeo-X Endurocross
17.01.2008
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Taddy Blazusiak, the Polish rider who came, saw and conquered the 2007 Erzberg Rodeo and won himself a KTM factory rider position for his efforts, snatched victory at the weekend at the Rodeo-X Endurocross event in Linz, Austria.
Taddy was in blistering form and out to fascina ... mehr |
KTM's David Knight Takes Round Two of Enduro World Cup
17.12.2007
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The mighty Knighter was back on his KTM and in exemplary form to dominate the second round of the 2007 FIM Indoor Enduro World Cup held in the Olympic Stadium Munich at the weekend.
KTM's newest factory rider Taddy Blazusiak (Poland) was close behind in second place, rounding off ... mehr |
Six Days 2007 - KTM sets new records in rider participation and service
28.11.2007
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The Six Days Enduro classic, this year held in La Serena Chile, proved to be another exceptional occasion for KTM factory riders. It also set new records for participation and service on and for KTM machines.
Italy took the coveted world trophy with a major contribution from KTM factory rider Alessandro Belometti, with his team-mate Fabien Planet helping France ... mehr |
Aubert wins the ‘07 ISDE while Yamaha claims the Manufacturers title
19.11.2007
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Aboard his WR450F Frenchman Johnny Aubert has produced his first overall ISDE win at the 82nd running of the International Six Days Enduro held at La Serena, Chile. Topping the Enduro 2 class by being the fastest rider overall his efforts contributed substantially in helping his Yamaha UFO Corse A team to win the Manufacturers award. Johnny’s blistering speed also played a key ro ... mehr |
